7.4.11

This is a piece I call "Morgen" (German for morning aswell as tomorrow) - there´s a scrap of an old book init with that word.It shows handwritten (only partly visible now) and machinewritten words in English and German I improvised aroundthat word "Morgen"...

And I made three mixed-media pictures on small, tilelike canvases which I also covered with improvisedtext fragments before attaching the layers of cottonand paper with the drawings, and so partly hidingthe words again...

"Pleasure" this one is called - and that playing withwords is a pleasant thing indeed. Hiding some of themeaning (if there ever was...) seems to give thingsan additional breathing and thinking space (or so Ihope...)

Hey, thanks for your kind comments... - yes, words can easily be too close to the object, or to far away from it, or too obtrusive/instructive - so I feel good with hiding part of them - the same with poems I guess, the more room to roam + breathe, the better... - and I´ll definiely make more "tiles", they have a weight + firmness to them that is, well, a Pleasure...

love the palette...your free form stitching is amazing.. I just love my pincushion though i can't bear to unwrap it in all its loveliness so it has not been very functional for pins or voodoo curses but quite lovely to admire...